Chapter 392 Press Conference
April 18, 1995.
At 11:10 a.m., Cao Shien finished his work in the village and returned home as usual, preparing to have lunch and then continue his unfinished work.
In the kitchen, Li Xianglan was cooking. Cao Shien turned on the TV in the living room and found China Channel 1 to see if there was any news today.
However, as soon as he changed the channel, he was shocked and opened his mouth wide by the familiar figure on the TV. Although the TV screen was in black and white, he would never mistake his daughter.
He quickly stood up and shouted in the direction of the kitchen: "Daughter-in-law, come here and watch, our daughter is on TV again!"
"What?"
Li Xianglan, who was busy cooking in the kitchen, put down her shovel, rubbed her hands on her apron, and walked out of the kitchen with a puzzled look on her face.
"Come and watch, our daughter is on TV again. This time it's the Guardian of China. It's said that the hybrid rice she planted broke the world record, with a yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per mu. She is with many big leaders."
Hearing this, Li Xianglan ran into the kitchen in a panic, scooped up a ladle of water and poured it into the stove, extinguishing the firewood in the stove, and then ran to the living room in a hurry.
At this time, Cao Chunyuan had just finished her speech, and the camera switched to another leader of the agricultural department.
Seeing that there was no figure of Cao Chunyuan on the TV, Li Xianglan said with a complaining face: "What are you talking about? Where is my daughter? I just lit the fire and I have to light it again. You don't want to eat, do you?"
Facing Li Xianglan's doubts, Cao Shien was very unjust. It was Cao Chunyuan who had been speaking just now. Just when Li Xianglan entered the room, the scene switched to someone else.
Now it was another leader who was speaking. Judging from the way he spoke, he could talk for a while. Moreover, Cao Shien didn't know whether Cao Chunyuan would appear again.
"I called you as soon as my daughter showed up. Do you blame me for being slow?
Don't worry about cooking for now. We eat the same food at any time. Let's see if my daughter will show up again. This is a Chinese guard. Our daughter is getting more and more powerful now. Our old Cao family is really smoking from its ancestral graves."
Li Xianglan glared at Cao Shi'en angrily. She had just put out the cooking fire, and now she had to relight it. She might as well wait and see if Cao Chunyuan would show up again.
Li Xianglan felt happy when she thought that her daughter could be admitted to the Chinese Guards.
"Don't blame your old Cao family. Apart from your efforts in giving birth to a daughter, what else have you done?
Did you teach her to read and calligraphy, or teach her how to do business? Even you, the village chief, only became the village chief because of your daughter. You still have the nerve to say that the smoke is coming out of the ancestral grave of the old Cao family. What do you call this?
Taking advantage of my daughter’s glory.”
This is not the first time Cao Shien has heard such words. When he heard such words before, he wanted to refute them, but now he is used to it.
What's the big deal about taking advantage of your daughter? Since there are elders who nibble on their daughters, can't they have fathers who nibble on their daughters?
He should be happy that his daughter is promising and willing to let him eat her!
"You don't care whether she is the glory of the old Cao family or not. Anyway, my daughter has a lot of potential, and no one else can compare with her."
"Cut~"
Li Xianglan rolled her eyes and was too lazy to argue with Cao Shien.
Soon, the press conference on hybrid rice came to the final reporter's question session. The first to be asked were two academicians of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, followed closely by Cao Chunyuan.
Seeing Cao Chunyuan's appearance, the two elders had a look of surprise on their faces.
"Look, I said Erni is on TV!"
"Shut up, I want to see what Er Ni is talking about."
On the TV screen, a foreign reporter with yellow hair and a high nose was asking Cao Chunyuan questions in English.
[I heard that you only have a junior high school education, but you developed hybrid rice with a yield of 1,108 pounds per mu. I have reason to believe that this is just a coincidence, and I suspect that your data is falsified.]
Cao Chunyuan had long thought that there would be jealous foreign reporters who would question her. This level of questioning was just childish.
She smiled slightly and responded: "First of all, in response to your question about academic qualifications, I think your intelligence collection personnel should really be fired. I am a student at Yanjing Agricultural University. I just focus on scientific research.
I just don’t go to school every day.
Secondly, if you cannot do something, it is not considered fraud. We have complete experimental records and will continue to conduct subsequent experiments.
There is an old saying in China: Humility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind.
I think this sentence suits you very well, thank you!”
Cao Chunyuan's answer was sonorous and powerful, and she also made an insinuation that the other party was arrogant and arrogant, which instantly received a round of applause and questions.
[China's agricultural scientific research level has always been at the middle and lower reaches of the world. You suddenly said that you have developed such high-yielding crops, which makes us very doubtful of its authenticity.
Of course, I personally am very willing to believe you. Can you explain in detail how you came up with the idea of cultivating high-yielding rice?]
The reporter who asked the question had a much better memory than the reporter just now. Although he also questioned Cao Chunyuan, he was still more polite. Therefore, Cao Chunyuan's attitude towards him was much more polite than just now.
"Knowledge is the ladder of human progress. China was indeed in a relatively backward position before, but it does not mean that we will always lag behind. In recent years, we have been catching up. This hybrid rice experiment is proof of our success.
We have proven with actual results that we are at the forefront of the world in agricultural scientific research.
As for the scientific research reasons for your question, of course there are some. Just like Newton only thought of the great scientific discovery of gravity after he was hit by an apple.
As for me, it was because of the droughts in many countries in recent years that I became interested in rice.
My original intention was to develop drought-resistant rice and cold-resistant rice, two types of rice. One is to withstand drought, and the other is to cultivate a type of rice that can be grown in the northern temperate zone.
My initial experiment was very successful, and I cultivated drought-resistant rice and high-yielding cold-resistant rice at the same time. High-yielding cold-resistant rice not only has cold-resistant properties, but is also very high-yielding, with a yield of up to 480 kilograms per mu.
480 kilograms, which is only 20 kilograms away from 1,000 kilograms. So, I found Academician Pei Shaorong, who is very powerful in the field of hybrid rice, and cooperated with her to cultivate Huaxing 001 hybrid rice using high-yield and cold-resistant rice.
Academician Pei Shaorong deserves the most credit for the success of Huaxing 001 hybrid rice, and I am just one of her students who assisted her.
This is the origin of Huaxing 001 hybrid rice, thank you!"
After Cao Chunyuan finished speaking, there was another chattering discussion in the audience. These people had already known about Cao Chunyuan and knew about the high-yield and cold-resistant rice she cultivated last year.
Seeing that Cao Chunyuan connected high-yield cold-resistant rice with Huaxing 001 hybrid rice, the skepticism was greatly reduced, because the second phase experiment of high-yield cold-resistant rice has been completed, and the experimental results are very gratifying.
It seems reasonable to use such excellent rice for cross-breeding and achieve better results.
At this moment, a reporter with a warrior's hair and a mustache stood up.
[China is a country of etiquette. I believe that China, as a country of etiquette, will definitely share such important scientific research results! 】
Chapter completed!